And wherever ye go I will go alongst with you,
For I’ll never return back again to my mammie.’
9
‘I hae four-and-twenty gude milk-kye,
They’re a’ bun in yon byre sae bonny,
And I am the earl o the Isle o Skye,
And why should not Peggy be called a lady?
10
‘I hae fifty acres o gude land,
A’ ploughed ower and sawn sae bonny,